On my recent three month travels in South America, I picked up a book by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing titled 'The Prisons We Choose…
neilcoppenMarch 7, 2008
I hold a deep respect but at the same time inherent distrust for horses. The memory of a childhood incident: a mooi river farm, tugging…
neilcoppenFebruary 25, 2008
Tired of trodden trails and keen to start the New year with an experience that might set a precedent of some sort, I endure a…
neilcoppenJanuary 9, 2008
Interview with MC- Iain Robinson about his show “SpitFire' Iain Robinson aka Ewok Baggends asks a lot of questions. He opens our interview with a…
neilcoppenOctober 23, 2007
No one wants to shit on the Springboks parade. Only cynical idiots might dare to do such a thing at such a time and thereby…
neilcoppenOctober 23, 2007
Neil Coppen flies into London to attend a screenwriting Seminar by one the world's most revered and feared mentor's -Robert MacKee.In a lecture hall in…
neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007
I consider myself a vaguely intelligent person, one who is able to exert a healthy degree of self control and discipline but why then, after…
neilcoppenSeptember 22, 2007
As the first gun shots ring out a traumatized toddler wails from the stands. An Impi advancing, palms thundering on cow hide shields. ”˜Bags' the…
neilcoppenSeptember 29, 2006